Moodle basic training curriculum

You’ve got your Moodle site setup and configured to meet your organisation’s needs. So now it’s time to introduce your team to it.

I’ve listed below some of the key skills that I would expect to cover in any basic training.

Leave the advanced training until later

These are basic skills. There’s a whole lot more to Moodle that people will need to learn. But you probably don’t need to cover all of that at the beginning. Hopefully a lot of that more advanced stuff will have been set up by your Moodle Solution Architect.

This isn’t everything you need

When launching a new Moodle site, there’s a lot to discuss and agree. Not least things like naming conventions, use of images, roles and responsibilities and text style. Often this comes up during training sessions. Ideally they’ll have been dealt with and agreed beforehand.

Roles

I’ve split the table into three distinct roles (which may all be the same person - but I hope not):

Course designer/teacher - the person who creates the activities for the users of your Moodle site, and then tracks how those users are interacting with the activities. Note that this curriculum assumes people with this role are already able to design good teaching activities online.
User administrator/support - this is a separate Moodle role that I usually define in the system. They’re able to setup users and provide support for common queries (eg. lost passwords, missing enrolments)
System administrator - the person (ideally 2 people) who can make system-wide changes. The sort of role that could break the site if they’re not careful.

Curriculum

Category	Learning objective	Course designer/teacher	User administrator/support	System administrator
Courses	Create an empty course	No	No	Yes
Courses	Add activities and resources to a course (Label, Page, Quiz, Assignment to start with)	Yes	No	No
Courses	Backup a course	Yes	No	Yes
Courses	Restore a course from a backup	Yes	No	Yes
Courses	Add a block to a course	Yes	No	Yes
Courses	Manage course categories	No	No	Yes
Courses	Set up grade items	Yes	No	No
Courses	Set up gradebook calculations	Yes	No	No
Courses	Manage scales	Yes	No	Yes
Courses	Review grade reports	Yes	Yes	No
Courses	Review completion reports	Yes	Yes	No
Courses	Manage activity completion settings	Yes	No	No
Courses	Manage course completion settings	Yes	No	No
Courses	Manage course item restrictions	Yes	No	No
Courses	Choose a course format	Yes	No	No
Courses	Sort courses in a category	No	No	Yes
Roles	Describe the contexts in which a role can be added	Yes	Yes	Yes
Roles	Add a role to a person	Yes	Yes	Yes
Roles	Define a new role	No	No	Yes
Roles	Troubleshoot roles	No	Yes	Yes
Roles	Hide a block from users	Yes	No	Yes
System	Manage site policy agreements	No	No	Yes
System	Manage data protection requests	No	No	Yes
System	Edit the language pack	No	No	Yes
System	Manage the front page settings	No	No	Yes
System	Manage privacy settings	No	No	Yes
System	Create user tours	No	No	Yes
User admin	Create the bulk upload spreadsheet	No	Yes	No
User admin	Run the bulk user upload process	No	No	Yes
User admin	Manually add a user	No	No	Yes
User admin	Find a user's account	No	Yes	Yes
User admin	Login as another user	No	Yes	Yes
User admin	Manually enrol people in a course	Yes	Yes	Yes
User admin	Add a custom profile field	No	No	Yes
User admin	Add an enrolment method to a course	Yes	No	Yes
User admin	Manage authentication methods	No	No	Yes

Posted: 16 January 2022

Tags: System implementation Project management Coaching